Issues over the use of chemical restraint in a home run by the HSE were raised by HIQA following an inspection.

A new legislative act aims to protect students in Washington's public schools from harmful practices. Senate Bill 5654, ...

Nearly 1,000 patient deaths involved drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers as well as sedatives and antipsychotics ...

Chemical restraint allows undisturbed handling of the physically free, yet unconscious research subject. Wickings and Nieschlag (1980) noted significantly lower serum cortisol responses to ...

When animals need medical attention, effective restraint makes the job easier and safer for both the person providing the ...

More than a year after the state health department promised to do an “immediate and thorough” review of the program that allows paramedics to sedate patients with ketamine, a review panel ...

It can be difficult to decide whether chemical or physical restraint is necessary, as chemical restraint can have complicating side-effects. For example, isoflurane anesthesia causes a rapid ...

As the nation observes Black History Month, there is a continued need for legislative change to protect vulnerable patients ...

A former Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department Sergeant has learned his sentence for the assault of a county jail inmate.Wednesday, Ronald Leggitt, 44, or Marshall was sentenced to two years' ...

Human Rights Watch has called for greater staffing and training in Australian nursing homes, after investigating the use of chemical restraints for dementia patients.